Swing Time Av Zadie Smith

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017</b><br><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017</b><br><b><br>''Smith''s finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous'' <i>Observer </i></b><br><br><b>A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of <i>White Teeth</i>, <i>On Beauty </i>and <i>Grand Union</i></b> <br><br>Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It''s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.<br><br>Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, <i>Swing Time</i> is Zadie Smith''s most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . .<br><br><b>''Superb'' <i>Financial Times</i> ''Breathtaking'' <i>TLS </i>''Pitch-perfect'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>''There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith'' <i>Telegraph</i><br><br></b></p>